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Marietta Blau

1894 - 1970

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Marietta Blau (29 April 1894 – 27 January 1970) was a Jewish Austrian physicist of the 20th century who pioneered developments of photographic nuclear emulsions to image and accurately measure high-energy nuclear particles and events, significantly advancing the field of particle physics in her time. For this, she was awarded the Lieben Prize by the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW). As a Jew, she became an émigré from Austria because of the 1938 Nazi Anschluss (annexe), her research continuing from Oslo, onto Mexico and the United States of America before eventually returning to Austria in 1960 where she was awarded the ÖAW Erwin Schrödinger Prize. Blau discovered astronomically originating energy had a disintegrating effect to nuclei. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marietta Blau is the 572nd most popular physicist (down from 455th in 2019), the 743rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 550th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Marietta Blau ranks 572 out of 851. Before her are José Celestino Mutis, Lev Artsimovich, Ralph H. Fowler, Willem Hendrik Keesom, John Lennard-Jones, and Jakob II Bernoulli. After her are Claude Pouillet, Marcel Brillouin, Eric Allin Cornell, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Wallace Clement Sabine, and Norman Holter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Marietta Blau ranks 164. Before her are Berdi Kerbabayev, John Lennard-Jones, Viorica Ursuleac, Saken Seifullin, Edwin Linkomies, and Heinz Hopf. After her are Magda Julin, Robert Menzies, Yakov Frenkel, Alfred Romer, Francis Hunter, and Olive Thomas. Among people deceased in 1970, Marietta Blau ranks 161. Before her are Albert Ayler, Daniel Kinsey, Ernest Marsden, Dora Boothby, Luis Mariano, and Soledad Miranda. After her are Max Abegglen, Fritz Kortner, William Daniels, Tammi Terrell, Ralph Hartley, and Adolf Wiklund.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Marietta Blau ranks 743 out of 1,424. Before her are Victor Papanek (1923), İlber Ortaylı (1947), Pál Kitaibel (1757), Richard Oswald (1880), Béla Barényi (1907), and Daniel Gran (1694). After her are Alfred Riedl (1949), Archduke Friedrich of Austria (1821), Fritz Kortner (1892), Joseph Schildkraut (1896), Wlodimir Ledóchowski (1866), and Maria Wodzińska (1819).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Marietta Blau ranks 15. Before her are Walter Kohn (1923), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Fritjof Capra (1939), Berta Karlik (1904), Marian Smoluchowski (1872), and Heinz von Foerster (1911). After her are Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874), Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795), Julius Wess (1934), Sulamith Goldhaber (1923), Peter Zoller (1952), and Walter Munk (1917).

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